Guy Cools's List: Education

• You need a team. To sort, interrogate, and interpret roughly 1,000 digital  texts, scholars have brought together a data-mining gang drawn from the  departments of English, history, and computer science.

• Martin E.P. Seligman's model of "learned helplessness."

• First, some college instructors have only a vague idea of academic librarians'  expertise
• Second, some professors may be less than enthusiastic about sharing control.
• Third, as I began to suggest above, other professors -- particularly at elite  institutions -- may be unaware of, or unwilling to face, the full extent of  their students' ignorance (and -- gasp -- their own) about negotiating the  library's research tools.
• Your students need the library and the librarians in it.

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• just a set of tools
• Research education is not tools education. Research education involves getting  students to understand how information is organized physically in libraries, as  well as electronically in library catalogs and in powerful, sometimes highly  specialized commercial databases. It means teaching students to search  effectively online to identify the most relevant and highest-quality books,  articles, microform sets, databases, even free Web resources.

• My advice on course design is to keep it clean, simple, and straightforward.  Most of all, post deadlines in as many places as possible on your course Web  site: on the syllabus, on the schedule, on the calendar, in the grade book, and  under the assignments and readings tabs if you have them.
• when undergraduates take good courses online, they are required to be full  partners in their learning process
• Another feature of quality online courses—both undergraduate and graduate—is  good course-management software
• be friendly and welcoming, just as you would in a traditional classroom

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• Books and libraries are working (or living) models of knowledge formation. We  need them for the same reason we need models of atoms and airplanes. They are  hands-on. They are immersive. Holding a book in our hands, we orient ourselves  within a larger system.
• That personal interaction is supported by the electronic availability of  materials but is not replaced by it.
• The idea that books are outdated is based on a common misconception: the belief  that new technologies automatically render existing ones obsolete
• Moreover, I believe that in a hyper-connected age, the fact that books are not  connected to the electronic grid is becoming their greatest asset.

  • zie ook: William Deresiewicz, The end of solitude.
• The pages of a book shield us from the distractions that bombard us during most  of our waking hours. As an informational medium, the book focuses our attention,  encouraging the kind of immersion in a story or an argument that promotes deep  comprehension and deep learning.

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• I do a lot of reading online and like the modern library in town where computers  are alongside the stacks
• • De studenten gaan er wel van uit dat ALLE informatie enz. online te vinden is en dat er geen EXTRA'S te vinden zijn in gedrukte vorm...
• • Electronic vs. paper ~ work vs. pleasure
• I feel that e-books are extremely hard to study from — not because of content,  but because it is very hard to concentrate on the task when the Internet is only  a click away
• its use is as a refuge of quiet and contemplation rather than scholarly need
• I know there is a different “way” of reading something on a screen and something  printed

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